% nEVs are fully enclosed Polaris Electric Rangers, prepared for UK's outdoor climatic conditions, recharged nightly off electricity generated from sludge biogas, sludge is converted and spread on farmers' fields %
http://www.itv.com/news/granada/2016-01-01/poo-powered-cars-could-be-coming-to-a-street-near-you/ Poo-powered cars could be coming to a street near you 1 January 2016 [image http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/862391/stream_img.jpg Sludge-powered cars are being used at United Utilities Davyhulme treatment plant Credit: United Utilities video https://youtu.be/EUrMeQZYuGU Sludge powered electric vehicles at Davyhulme unitedutilities Nov 30, 2015 United Utilities engineers are putting the rev into a green revolution. The team at Davyhulme wastewater treatment works has taken delivery of a fleet of electric vehicles which will run on power generated by the plant itself. ] United Utilities have announced that they have been using sludge-powered cars on their site for the last 6 weeks and they've been extremely energy efficient. The biogas is used on the Davyhulme site in five combined heat and power engines to generate renewable electricity. In a year, this would power 25,000 homes. Despite being powered by fuel created from sewage, the car does not smell unpleasant and is powering five electric vehicles which are replacements for diesel vans to help transport staff around the site - United Utilities biggest in the country. Davyhulme area business manager, Keith Haslett, said: “Davyhulme is a vast site and our engineers need transport to get around. By taking the diesel vans off the road we’ll save around five tonnes of carbon a year. “What’s more, with a top speed of 15mph the electric cars mean we have to stick to the site speed limit, helping improve health and safety.” – Davyhulme area business manager, Keith Haslett Davyhulme wastewater treatment works is United Utilities biggest plant and will be energy neutral by 2018, thanks to the electricity generated on site from the biogas produced by the sludge digestion process. Keith said: “We’re always looking at ways to maximise the value we can get from sewage sludge.” – Davyhulme area business manager, Keith Haslett [© 2016 ITV] http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/forget-diesel-unleadedtake-look-cars-10671486 Forget diesel and unleaded...take a look at the cars powered by poo 1 Jan 2016 ... biogas ... powering five electric Polaris vehicles ... http://i1.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article10674286.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Poocar2s.jpg ... http://www.polarisquad.co.uk/product/polaris-ranger-ev-avalanche-grey-4x4-road-legal/ ... The RANGER EV features a strong 30 HP/48V AC electric motor ... http://www.polarisquad.co.uk/product/complete-pro-steel-cab-system/ [dated] http://wwtonline.co.uk/news/uu-s-davyhulme-wwtw-powers-electric-vehicle-fleet UU's Davyhulme WwTW powers electric vehicle fleet 04/12/2015 https://ediewater.s3.amazonaws.com/news/images/r_2415-uu-s-davyhulme-wwtw-powers-electric-vehicle-fleet.jpg ... http://corporate.unitedutilities.com/3200.aspx 4 July 2014 ... United Utilities’ Davyhulme Sludge Recycling Centre takes a round-the-clock waste stream, Manchester’s wastewater sludge, and converts it into a high quality soil conditioner for farmers while generating renewable electricity from the biogas produced during the process ... generate up to 80GWh of electricity per year ... equivalent of the needs of 25,000 homes ... provides water and wastewater services for 7 million people in North West England. It operates, maintains and improves 42,000km of water mains and 76,000km of sewers ... For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://evdl.org/evln/ {brucedp.150m.com} -- View this message in context: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Biogas-charged-neighbourhoodEVs-United-Utilities-Davyhulme-uk-v-tp4679444.html Sent from the Electric Vehicle Discussion List mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Read EVAngel's EV News at http://evdl.org/evln/ Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
